> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:59:21AM -0800, Daniel Rall wrote:> > I don't understand this commit at all. The enclosing "" around the> > shell variables should make the foreach thingger treat "$(VAR)" as a> > single element, rather than a list of elements...> > Well, without the quotes, solaris sh chokes on it cause it evaluates it> to:> > for f in ;> > and it sas the semicolon is unexpected. Even the if block alone isn't> sufficient to protect things -- sh tries to parse the stuff inside the> if block and chokes there.

bash has no problem with this, ugh...Solaris sh is totally broken. Asemi-colon is a statement terminator.

> I'd prefer to do away with the section entirely -- there are no httpd> conf files, I get really sick of dealing with solaris sh stupidity like> this, and I don't see *any* value that the section in question brings. > Certainly it has brought me lots of headaches.

I agree that the section should be done away with. As it currentlystands, it's broken under bash if there is more than one element inthe list.